Future electron-ion colliders (eIC) will focus on the unitarity properties of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) in the limit of strong nuclear absorption. Strong nuclear shadowing and a large abundance of coherent diffraction are the most striking consequences of unitarity, and here we report quantitative predictions for these effects in the kinematical range of the planned eIC.
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0610319,
title = {Unitarity constraints for DIS off nuclei: predictions for electron-ion colliders},
author = {N. N. Nikolaev and W. Schäfer and B. G. Zakharov and V. R. Zoller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0610319},
year = {2008}
}